Yoko (name)

Yoko
Pronunciation	Yoko
Gender	Female
Language(s)	Japanese
Other names
Related names	Yōko, Yōkō

Yoko and Yohko are given names in Japan.

People

Female

Yōko is a female Japanese given name. Depending on the kanji used in writing it, it can have meanings including "Free Child" (暢子), "Sunny Child" (陽子), "Glorious Child" (容子), "Ocean Child" (洋子), "Leaf Child" (葉子), etc.

People who have the name "Yōko" include

• Yoko Akino (暢子, born 1957), Japanese actress
• Yōko Asada (葉子, born 1969), Japanese voice actress
• Yōko Hikasa (陽子, born 1985), Japanese voice actress
• Yōko Honda (陽子, born 1983), Japanese voice actress
• Yōko Honna (陽子 born 1979), Japanese voice actress
• Yoko Ishida (born 1973), Japanese singer
• Yoko Kamio (葉子, born 1966), manga artist popular for her manga Boys Over Flowers
• Yoko Kando (漢人, born 1974), Japanese butterfly swimmer
• Yoko Kanno (よう子, born 1964), composer-keyboardist
• Yoko Kikuchi (born 1981), American artist, singer, and songwriter
• Yoko Kikuchi (1967–1999) idol singer
• Yoko Koikawa (born 1974), Japanese backstroke swimmer
• Yōko Maki (actress) (よう子, born 1982), Japanese actress
• Yōko Maki (manga artist) (ようこ, born 1981), Japanese Manga artist
• Yoko Matsugane (洋子, born 1982), Japanese gravure idol
• Yoko Matsumoto (洋子), Japanese manga artist of Darkness Gathers
• Yoko Matsuyama (松山容子, born 1937), Japanese actress
• Yoko Moriguchi (瑤子, born 1966), Japanese actress
• Yōko Nagayama (洋子, born 1968), Japanese enka singer and actress
• Yôko Natsuki (陽子, born 1952), Japanese actress
• Yōko Nogiwa (陽子, born 1936), Japanese actress
• Yoko Ono (洋子, born 1933), Japanese musician-artist and widow of John Lennon
• Yoko Sakaue (坂上, born 1968), Japanese judoka
• Yoko Shibui (陽子, born 1979), Japanese long-distance runner
• Yoko Shimada (楊子, born 1953), Japanese actress
• Yoko Shimomura (陽子, born 1967), Japanese composer and musician
• Yōko Sōmi (陽子, born 1965), Japanese voice actress
• Yoko Takahashi (洋子, born 1966), Japanese singer, performed "Cruel Angel's Thesis" opening for Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Yoko Tanabe (陽子, born 1966), Japanese judoka
• Yoko Tawada (葉子, born 1960), Japanese writer
• Yoko Toyonaga (born 1977), Japanese shot putter
• Yoko Wanibuchi (洋子, born 1972), Japanese politician
• Yoko Watanabe (葉子, 1953–2004), Japanese operatic soprano

Male

Pronounced differently, with two long o's, Yōkō can be a given name for a man:

• Yoko Gushiken (具志堅 用高, born 1955), professional boxer from 1974–1981

Characters

(name)

• Yoko Belnades, a supporting character in the Castlevania series
• Yoko Herene, a character of My-Otome
• Yoko Kuno, a character of All About Lily Chou-Chou
• Yoko Littner, a major character of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
• Yoko Matsutani, a character of Legendz
• Yohko Mano, a character of Devil Hunter Yohko
• Yoko Okino, a minor character of Case Closed
• Yoko Tsuno is a comic book series created by the Belgian writer Roger Leloup
• Yoko Suzuki, character in the Resident Evil series
• Yoko former name of Gally (Alita)
• Yoko, a character of Inukami!
• Yoko, a character from the 2004 American supernatural horror movie The Grudge
• Yoko, the birth name of the main character in the manga "Battle Angel Alita" (someone else named her Alita because she forgot it, eventually she remembers her name is Yoko from a flashback, but decides to keep her name Alita anyway)

A form of the YuYu Hakusho character Kurama is called Demon Fox (Yoko) Kurama; this "Yoko" is not a proper name.

See also

• Yoko (disambiguation)